Four weekend shootings in Beaufort Co.

BEAUFORT COUNTY, S.C. – Beaufort County Sheriff’s deputies responded to four separate shootings over the weekend. There’s no indication that any of them are connected. Four men were shot. All of them are expected to survive.

Sheriff’s deputies said a 32-year-old man was shot on Coinbow Loop in Burton just before 11 p.m. Friday. Omar Habersham, 36, is wanted for attempted murder. The victim was shot several times. He has since been released from the hospital.

There was another shooting Friday night outside a house party on Detour Road in Seabrook. Deputies said a 26-year-old man was shot several times in his lower torso. Authorities said the victim had a gun and drugs on him.

Deputies responded to another shooting around 12:30 a.m. Sunday at a pool room on Parris Island Gateway in Burton. Authorities said a 19-year-old man had been shot several times.

Then, just after 6:30 p.m. Sunday, deputies said another 19-year-old man was shot in the face. That shooting happened on Jenkins Port Road on St. Helena Island.

Neighbors say they’re tired of all the violence. Arthur Murray lives near the pool room where the shooting happened early Sunday morning.

“I guess they’re emulating what they see on TV or Hollywood,” Murray said about the violence. “Everybody pull out their gun and start shooting, ask questions later. That’s what they do. They just want to be adults. Some of them are young and they’re not old enough to have a weapon but they have a gun and they carry it.”

Understandably, many people didn’t want to talk about the violence on camera. But some of them told WJCL News this used to just happen in bigger cities. Now it’s common in the Lowcountry. All four victims are expected to survive. But many Lowcountry residents said they’re disturbed that some people are settling their differences with guns.